"The articles in this book originally appeared in The female autograph, volume 12-13 of the New York literary forum"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241)

Autogynography : is the subject different? / Domna C. Stanton -- Ceremonies of the alphabet : female grandmatologies and the female authorgraph / Sandra Caruso Mortola Gilbert and Susan Dreyfuss David Gubar -- The female hand in Heian Japan : a first reading / Richard Bowring -- Autobiography of a new 'creatur' : female spirituality, selfhood, and authorship in "The book of Margery Kempe" / Janel M. Mueller -- To restore honor and fortune : "The autobiography of Leonor López de Córdoba" / Amy Katz Kaminsky and Elaine Dorough Johnson -- Artemisia Gentileschi : the artist's autograph in letters and paintings / Mary D. Garrard -- Giving weight to words : Madame de Sévigné's letters to her daughter / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- "My childhood years" : a memoir by Czarist cavalry officer, Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- Neither auction block nor pedestal : "The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady" / Frances Smith Foster -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : musician in her brother's shadow / Marcia J. Citron -- Women as law clerks : Catharine G. Waugh / Nancy F. Cott

The female sociograph : the theater of Virginia Woolf's letters / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Of sparrows and condors : the autobiography of Eva Perón / Marysa Navarro -- "Difficult journey-- mountainous journey", the memoirs of Fadwa Tuqan / Donna Robinson Divine -- Women and autobiography at author's expense / Philippe Lejeune -- My memory's hyperbole / Julia Kristeva

xi, 244 pages : 23 cm

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